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...And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness by Olafur Arnalds (CD, 2010)

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Vom Vorprogramm von Sigur Rós zu einer Weltkarriere, und das binnen zwei Jahren. Nicht schlecht für einen Musiker, dessen Musik so zärtlich, so minimal daherkommt wie die von Ólafur Arnalds. Für ". And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness" lud Arnalds Bardi Jóhannsson (Bang Gang) als Co-Produzenten ein.

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Producer
Olafur Arnalds
Record Label
Erased Tapes Records
UPC
4050486016930
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17050146222

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Artist
Olafur Arnalds
Format
CD
Release Year
2010
Release Title
...And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness
Run Time
43 mins 29 seconds
Genre
Rock

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Personnel: Olafur Arnalds (piano, keyboards); Margrét Soffia Einarsdóttir (violin); Arndis Hulda Audunsdóttir (viola); Kjartan Bragason (drums). Audio Mixers: Bardi Jóhannsson; Olafur Arnalds. Recording information: Kingston; Schimmel Piano Factory, Braunschweif, Germany; Schimmel Piano Factory, Braunschweig, Germany; Studio Bang; Studio Hljódriti; Studio Syrland; Studio Syrland. Arranger: Olafur Arnalds. They must be putting something in the water over there in Iceland that makes musicians work in unexpected ways. Their biggest pop and rock exports -- Björk and Sigúr Ros, respectively -- have borne very little relation to what the rest of the world thinks of as pop and rock, so why should their most promising young neo-classical composer be any different? At an age when most young men are still trying to decide between grad school and the night shift at Denny's, Olafur Arnalds has already made a name for himself as a musical maverick who skirts the edges of the classical, rock, electronic, and avant-garde worlds with enthusiastic ease, a Nico Muhly with a higher tolerance for cold weather, if you will. On his second full-length release, Arnalds moves further away from electronics to embrace a more acoustically oriented approach centered on piano and strings. Electronics do play a supporting role -- they're simply used to enhance the atmosphere here and there, but in the main, Arnalds is creating 21st century chamber music here, as the piano makes simple, elegant statements whose harmonic possibilities are further fleshed out by the strings. And Arnalds may be a modernist in terms of pushing stylistic boundaries, but he still has some old-school, downright romantic notions about melodic movement -- you won't find any polytonality or serial music among these tracks. Arnalds prefers instead to repurpose old-school harmonic conventions in a new context, offering the listener a readily accessible emotional connection but still breaking new ground. And on the few strategic spots in the album where Arnalds drops in drums and/or electric guitar and repetitive motifs, the effect is not dissimilar to the headier moments of the aforementioned Sigúr Ros, or perhaps early-`70s Pink Floyd at their most ethereal, showing the rock crowd that they too have a point of entry into this music. ~ J. Allen
Reviews
Spin - "Arnalds' game is more ambience than transcendence -- so the four very brief detours into Explosions in the Sky-style post-rock seem all the more cinematic." Uncut (p.81) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he frosted beauty of 'Kjurrt' is a particular highlight." Pitchfork (Website) - "It's melodic, sensitive, rhythmically subdued....A few tracks feature very prominent climaxes with laidback rock percussion, at which times the starry nocturnes flood with daylight." Clash (Magazine) - "[A]n uplifting and richly orchestrated second album....Delicate string arrangements married with subtle synths highlight Arnalds' trademark piano sound..."
Distribution
Forced Exposure
Engineer
Finnur Hákonarson; Styrmir Hauksson; Finnur Hauksson; Terence Goodchild; Tony Levin; Bardi Johannsson; Olafur Arnalds
Number of Audio Channels
Stereo
Number of discs
1

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